A single book has saved me; but that book is not of human origin. Long
had I despised it; long had I deemed it a class-book for the credulous
and ignorant; until, having investigated the Gospel of Christ, with an
ardent desire to ascertain its truth or falsity, its pages proffered to
my inquiries the simplest knowledge of man and nature, and the
simplest, and at the same time the most exalted system of moral ethics. Faith,
hope and charity were enkindled in my bosom; and every advancing step
strengthened me in the conviction that the morals of this book are as
infinitely superior to human morals as its oracles are superior to human
opinions.--M.L. BAUTIN.